Botan had come in early to the meeting as she had always been accustomed to since the beginning of her reaping. Her pretty face looked worried and stressed upon looking at the folders that Koenma had her prepare before the spirit detective would come in.

Her pink eyes wary and her posture broken, she smiled while trying to pretend that the new mission hadn't worried her. She always respected Koenma and generally, the grim reaper didn't disagree with her boss's plans but today, it felt different. It could've been being in the Ningenkai that had changed her, being around the humans whom expressed emotions so beautifully and it didn't take a genius to assume that it was starting to affect her mentally.

Still, saying that being around them was affecting her job and mission—well, that was disallowed. The pretty female had promised Koenma that staying in the human world wouldn't change her, but it was a lie that she knew before she even made the promise. The world had already changed her.

The day that she met Yusuke changed her then with each person that she met after him, there was no turning back.

It was for that reason that when she read the new mission, herself, that her heart began to ache. It was an assassination, this mission. She couldn't remember if the missions had always been like that or if she was just being over-sensitive. Either way, she didn't like it.

"Anything wrong, Botan?" Koenma asked.

"This mission… it's an assassination?"

"Correct." Koenma answered without allowing her to go into a ramble about it. "My father has demanded it to be done. It is of utmost concern to him. I cannot defy him." He made his point clear, making it clear to her that her opinion, at this moment, did not matter.

George the ogre stood up, physically bothered by the entire situation. "I still say it's wrong! We could start…"

The difference in reactions was notably clear. "NOBODY ASKED YOU! GET BACK TO LICKING STAMPS!" Koenma yelled back, his pacifier nearly falling out his mouth.

The doors opened and it was clear that the Spirit Detectives had made it into Makai. Kuwabara came running in with a gleeful childish smile on his face with an almost exaggerated excitement about having a new mission. The funny part was the Koenma had never even said that he could join Yusuke and Kurama on this new job, but he didn't bother voicing that as he knew he'd be helping them anyways.

Kurama and Yusuke came in at the same time. They both seemed indifferent to the whole thing. If only they could also share Kuwabara's excitement.

Botan passed out the folders before noticing something that she hadn't expected. Hiei was also there. "Oh… let me go make another copy… let me burrow your's, Kurama." Botan quickly stated before running off to get copies.

"'Ey little man, I'm surprised you're taking order from old man." Yusuke spoke out after hearing the new mission. To be honest, the whole mission irked him. After learning of what King Enma had been doing before Koenma became the ruler of Makai, any thing that came from that trash bothered him. King Enma was cold and a liar.

"In general, I must agree… however, there has been many issues going on in Reikai and in Ningenkai that you may not have noticed but I'm sure Kuwabara has noticed the subtle changes."

Kuwabara looked up and smiled embarrassedly. "Y-Yeah, I noticed. Haha. I didn't think nothing of it."

"Well, you should have. This entire doesn't have very long to survive and the reason for it is the person mentioned in the papers."

Kurama stayed quiet as the three other males began discussing the mission. He turned to look at Hiei but the younger teen had already left as if he had only come to hear what was going on. It bothered him a bit but he hadn't really seen him for some time so he could have just felt awkward and didn't want to say it.

He read the paper over and over for what seemed like hours but was merely a few minutes. There was no mistake in what it said however, it still didn't make sense. The person in the paper had long been gone from the living world, that he knew for sure so why was the report saying this person was still alive.

Trying to thinking about another subject, he focused on the other two in the room. He was surprised that Kuwabara hadn't really reacted to the mission as it did have something to do with killing a woman, but he was sure that he was so excited that he didn't even bother reading it over. Kurama was sure that Yusuke would receive a call at midnight once he actually saw what their mission would be.

However, Kurama, being the nice guy that he was, decided to point it out so that everyone would listen especially their "boss."

"Our mission is to kill the Mars Princess, am I to understand that, correctly?" Kurama asked with a poise that belonged on a lawyer.

Botan nodded her head as the other three males stopped talking (er, arguing as normal people would call it) and started listening to the red-head talk. He then asked, "How is that possible?"

"Well, unlike the human society has commissioned you to believe that aliens…"

"I'm not talking about aliens. How can we kill someone that I know has died over a thousand years ago?" Kurama stated plainly. It was clear by his tone that although it was posed as a question, it was a statement.

A silence befell them all.

Yusuke didn't understand the emotion in his voice but it was clear that Kuwabara understood the situation.

"Maybe someone is pretending to be her!" Kuwabara answered with hope in his voice that Yusuke also didn't understand. What was this conversation really about?

"As a young yoko, I met her and as a young yoko, I watched that woman die. She was a priestess of a kingdom from neither of Reikai or Ningenkai… It wasn't even of Makai." He paused as if the memory froze him in another time, his eyes much more emotional that Botan or Yusuke were used to seeing him. He walked over to the desk where George sat on the far right corner of the room where he placed the folder.

"Kurama, she had been resurrected around the same time that you came into contact with the human boy's body that you now claim known as Shuichi Minamino. I do not know the details about when or where she was born but it's definitely true." Koenma acknowledged Kurama's concerns then continued, "You are correct in saying that she is from none of those worlds because at one time, she was a planetary warrior called a sailor senshi. We called them "Warriors of the Celestial Realms" during that time."

He was going to continue but Kurama was already walking out. "Gomen nassai. Unfortunately, if I am ever to meet this princess, I may not be able to kill her unless I see that your father is correct."

Botan wanted to chase after him and see the real issue but chose to wait until she was dismissed from work to talk to him.

Chibiusa jotted notes down as she looked to the newcomer to her left side, a student that had also transferred into the school like her. It was strange to imagine that it was just coincidence that this young man had also had the same plan as she did. Still, it was nice to imagine someone else going through the same thing as her.

"Nice introduction." She giggled her dark red eyes bright with a glimmer of excitement.

"Ah, really?" The boy responded, his greenish blue eyes seemingly surprised. "Well, I did practice a thousand times last night!"

Chibiusa's eyes widened. It was shocking that he had enough time to practice his introduction after catching him with Rei's cousin near midnight over by the old abandoned well near the temple. Strange described the situation seeing as Kagome had to be Rei's age and the others seemed around that same age and maybe like the outer's ages.

Then again, she also hung out with Rei and the others, and in this century, people not knowing her real age, they probably questioned her too. Then again, even in her own century, people still questioned her because of the fact that she stayed physically and mentally the same age for nearly 900 years.

"Please keep it down. You don't want to make bad first impressions, now do you?" The teacher interrupted the two's conversation, her eyes dark and critical.

Chibiusa smiled then wrote on a piece of paper, 'Nice to meet you, Shippou! It's going to be great becoming friends.' She passed it over to him then got back to writing her notes.

Shippou took the paper and looked at it slightly confused. He had never done note passing before but with a little common sense on his side, he decided that it was for him and to read it. He didn't understand why but his heart skipped a beat and his face felt warm, his hands clammy, and his muscles tensed as he wrote back, 'Ditto.'

It was better than his original thing was going to say. It should be better than 'okay,' he thought.

Sarayashiki High School was definitely no school for rich kids, heck, it wasn't even for a middle class teen. The school was raggedy, the bathrooms were unsanitary, and the teachers were barely teachers. Being number one in exams here didn't mean much as most of the top ten students there were only getting a typical students scores in a normal school.

The principal ordered that she had stayed in his office until the day was over as he didn't want her to draw any undue attention to herself. He began by explaining how happy that her father was sending her there to learn of the common folk.

Damn! He really was a step ahead of me.

Rei learned of how her father was now going to start paying the school enough money to allow them to have reason to raise tuition and to pay for better technology and up-to-date books in the classroom. The secretary explained that they would prefer to protect her in this office until they could get her a school outfit matching everyone else so that people wouldn't assume anything.

Rei took that as them saying 'there are a lot of thugs in our school that would take advantage of you,' but kept it to herself. She was sure that the secretary wasn't meant to say that. The beautiful priestess was also sure that the two of them were sleeping together.

The bell rang and rather than wait to be excused, Rei walked out, annoyed by her entire situation. She walked the halls in TA private Catholic girl uniform, its appearance making her stand out much more than she would have liked or would have paid attention to if it weren't for the lovely warning from the office staff. While everyone else wore a faded blue with cheaper fabric than Usagi's school, Rei wore a uniform of the finest linen (similar to that of which they used for fine kimonos), gray colored, a skirt much shorter than most public schools allowed but the norm for private schools, her skirt higher than mid-thigh. For some reason, possibly because of the other girls having much less skin showing, she felt like a dirty vixen.

'Hey pretty girl…" Rei heard a young male's voice speak, a tone belonging to a snake in her opinion.

She ignored the voice and kept walking straight finding no reason to even pretend to be nice for an obvious jerk like him.

"You're that stupid governor's daughter, aren't you?" Another voice spoke. This time the voice was much deeper and more powerful than the last. She assumed, without looking, that he must've been a much bigger guy, taller and probably more muscular. Judging by his shadow, she was probably right.

Another guy was coming but he didn't speak, but she could feel his aura full of rage and hormones and hear the sound of the worn out shoes coming close to her. This one was either the leader or the punk whom got mad when the taller guy was annoyed. Either way, she was in trouble.

She was about to turn to see her troublemakers in the flesh but the raging hormonal teenager grabbed her by the wrist and tried to dislocate her shoulder as he threw her into the ground using his body to keep her down.

"Hey Bastard! Leave her alone!" Rei could hear another male yelling from across the courtyard. She could tell it was a delinquent, but a delinquent there to help her was better than a good guy whom wasn't willing to come to her aid.

For one moment, fear overcame her and she wished Haruka or Makoto were there and they'd easily handle their extra weight and in the next moment, fear overcame her again because she could feel powerful auras coming her way.

The heavy hormonal guy was lifted off of her and she turned to see her rescuer then to the other males, the guys whom were planning to do who-knows-what to her. Within seconds, anger flared up inside the normally calm priestess as she memorized the auras of the ones helping her then ran up to the biggest guy with muscles bulging even from his neck and pressed every pressure point in his body before kicking him in his face.

The guy fell with a huge thud as her two saviors turned and were ready for him also but saw he was already unconscious on the ground.

"Arigatou." Rei said finally turning to see the two boys. Her violet eyes seemed almost relieved to have seen it was them. She had been right even without looking of what her rescuers would probably look like.

"Yeah whatever…" The darker, shorter teen said as he kicked his victim in the ribs before looking at her, himself. "I just came to pick up my girlfriend."

"You're welcome! Anytime!" Kuwabara exclaimed as he began shaking her hands like an old man whom found the perfect bride for his grandson. He began laughing dumbly and she got the feeling that he wasn't the smart nut of the bunch, but it made her smile. "My name is Kuwabara Kazuma! And that idiot, his name is Urameshi."

Rei smiled slightly and bowed after his introduction. She could have sworn she had seen them before today, and she was sure it was in a situation where she'd least expect to see them.

The one named Urameshi was on his phone yelling about how his girlfriend never answered the phone but stopped upon seeing a beautiful girl running out the school.

Rei stared for a moment wondering why such a pretty girl would be into a thug like him. It was obvious that she was the girl he was talking about by the way his aura suddenly calmed down and his tone became softer.

The girl, however, wasn't running to him but to her. It was at this moment that Rei felt like that girl made the school uniform suddenly look cute although she didn't have time to stop for this girl or for anybody else. She needed to get Chibiusa from school.

"Governor daughter's-san!" The girl yelled out nearly out of breath.

Rei turned to leave but found her wrist grabbed a second time within minutes by another guy, this time Urameshi as he was obviously trying to keep her there for his girlfriend. The raven-haired beauty had two thoughts in her head about how she could handle this: first was classily dismiss yourself and the second was throw him.

She chose the second option. Without so much as a glint in her eye, the teen was forced onto the ground by the girl in a position similar to her own a few minutes ago.

The girlfriend giggled. "It's not too many people that can do that to Yusuke."

Yusuke threw her off of him completely annoyed. "Stupid onna! See if I save you again!"

The girlfriend reached her hand out and helped Rei up. "Sorry about him. I hope he wasn't causing you too much trouble. My name is Yukimura Keiko… I was supposed to meet you after school in the principal's office to help you out with a few things but they said that you had already left."

"Sorry I was in a rush."

Keiko smiled reassuringly. "No problem, but I still need to do my job as the school's representative."

"There's no need." Rei said before taking a look at Yusuke and remembering where she had seen him. She stopped herself then looked at Yusuke and asked, "Were you at Meiou High School a few days ago hanging out with a pretty boy?"

Yusuke frowned after suddenly noticing that her face did look familiar. "Yeah so what? You haven't been following me, have you?"

Keiko sighed. This girl was going to be as difficult as Yusuke, that she could tell already. Furthermore, she had her eyes on Kurama already. "You and I need to get your body measurement for your new uniform." She interjected.

Rei nodded. "Sorry. Can I pick up a little girl from school first then I promise you that I'll do whatever you wish, Class President."

Okay so maybe she wouldn't be as difficult as Yusuke but she still couldn't tell if that white flag was sarcastic or genuine. Still, if she had eyes on Kurama, she would have to go through his fan-club and his girlfriend before she could get to him.

Botan wouldn't like this.

Exasperated, Keiko sighed again. This was going to be a long year, she could tell!

Author's Note:

Thank you for all the reviews for the second chapter! :D It makes me smile! Aquafina Rain and Chibi Earth, you are both awesome! ChibiEarth, I have missed you! Anyways, I came to the conclusion over the weekend that my writing is better without me listening to music, I get more detailed without music in my ears so this is probably my first chapter of this story without music in my ears.

Should I keep playing music while I'm writing or no?

This ends the introductory chapters of just showing where the plot is heading. What do you think? This chapter is basically YYH chapter that was lead-in from chapter one when everyone had the message that they had a new mission while at Shuichi's house.

What do you think will or should happen next? Let me know! What did you think of the interactions? Rei and Kurama will have their first interactions probably on the next chapter….

Please review!